The Ailing Planet: the Green Movement’s Role

“We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children.” Who said this?

• L.K. Jha

• Edgar S. Woolar

• Margaret Thatcher

• Lester R Brown

Of all the statements made by Margaret Thatcher during the years of her Prime Ministership, none has passed so decisively into the current coin of English usage as her felicitous words: ....Identify the quote.

• “No generation has a freehold on this earth. All we have is a life tenancy — with a full repairing lease”.

• “Are we to leave our successors a scorched planet of advancing deserts, impoverished landscapes and ailing environment?”

• “We were saying that we are losing the forests at an acre a second, but it is much closer to an acre-and-a-half to a second”.

• “We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children.”

“We have not inherited this earth from our forefathers; we have borrowed it from our children.” Explain

Laws are never respected nor enforced in India.

• Agree

• Disagree

The problems of overpopulation directly affect our everyday life.

• Agree

• Disagree

WORLD POPULATION 2020(approx.)

• 5.72 BILLION

• 7.58 BILLION

• 6.72 BILLION

• 7.20 BILLION

The population of India is estimated to be ......... in 1994 and ...........in 2020 approximately.

• 870 Million and 2.1 Billion

• 920 Million and 1.23 Billion

• 920 Million and 1.37 Billion

• 870 Million and 1.37 Billion

In .............. the world’s first nationwide Green party was founded in New Zealand.

• 1970

• 1971

• 1972

• 1973

According to Mr Lester R. Brown which among the following doesn't form the foundation of the global economic system ?

• Fisheries

• Wastelands

• Croplands

• Forests

• Forests

“what goes under the pot now costs more than what goes inside it”. This means...

• pot is costlier than firewood

• firewood is costlier than pot

• firewood is costlier than staples

• pot is costlier than staples